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sirikenobi12 · 3 years

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One thing that I haven't stopped thinking about since I saw your post about how Luke is depicted in fanfics, especially as a jedi order basher in time traveling fics for them apparently suppressing his slave culture and that is the simple fact that by the time that Luke is born, his father had not been a slave 14 years and his paternal grandmother had not been a slave for several years as well before her death. So while he has slave blood in him, he himself was not a slave.

Hmmmm, interesting, TBH I'm not the biggest fan of time traveling fics, they have to have a real interesting hook for me to read them (not a big "fix it" fic fan either). I honestly hadn't heard of this complaint before, are people angry that Luke doesn't think about his slave heritage? ...interesting.

Oh wait, I think I get it now...he's apparently angry with the Jedi for suppressing slavery or rather since they haven't been able to end slavery they must then condone it?

*sigh*

This idea that because the Jedi didn't throw their powers around to end slavery in the galaxy is just another one of those unrealistic expectations thrust on the Jedi Order. And frankly it is usually said by people who have no concepts of how the real world or politics works.

Slavery is abhorrent, no one is denying that, but it still exists even in our day and age. Unfortunately we as free countries (wherever we are all from) can't just go into these nations brandishing our weapons and overthrowing their governments - even if we'd really like to. Historically speaking whenever that happens the fallout is tremendous, often times the armies are pulled out before any kind of a replacement government can be formed and so chaos reigns. This would've been no different for the Jedi.

By the time we see them in the Prequels the Jedi only had 10,000 members. Let's assume that's active Knights/Masters/Padawans out in the field and not including the younglings/retired/sick who can't leave the temple. 10,000 people isn't even enough for a small army in our own world yet somehow they were expected to overthrow entire planets? How exactly??

Also, let's say the Jedi did overthrow the Hutts on Tatooine with their 10,000 members what then? Do the Jedi take control of the planet and rule it? Do they leave the planet without a government and then move to the next one? You don't think the Hutts (or someone else) wouldn't swoop in and take over the planet once the Jedi are gone (much like Al Qaeda has done in the Middle East)? Again, this is a very ideological viewpoint and just not very realistic.

Look, I get the concern about Shmi being left behind, but to be honest Qui-Gon ignored his mission and basically bought the Jedi a slave (well, he cheated and won him but that's semantics). The Council rightfully saw this as a concern because of the moral implications of the Jedi going around owning slaves. I think they got around it because they technically freed Anakin, but could you imagine if the media had gotten wind of this story? Holy crap that would've been terrible for the Jedi because it's a gray area at the very least.

And, why was it only up to the Jedi to free Shmi, why not Padme??? The Jedi have very strict rules they have to follow because of their power, and they have no jurisdiction in the Outer Rim...it's like having a nuclear device, you have to have some regulations on it.

And for the record I'd argue the Jedi were doing something to fight slavery throughout the galaxy. The Republic had anti-slavery laws that the Jedi upheld, they also took down the Zygerrian Empire at one point (though it came back once the Sith had distracted the Jedi with a war). There are also several Legends stories of Jedi being sent undercover to known Slavers to help bring them down - my username sake, Siri Tachi was undercover for 4 years gathering intel and bringing down a huge slave ring, so to say the Jedi were doing nothing is ignorant at best.

This is a complicated topic and it makes me really sad that fans have bought into this idea that it's simple. They think that since the Jedi weren't able to eradicate slavery then they just didn't care which is completely and utterly false.

And going back to your point, you're absolutely right technically Luke wasn't a slave. He was born free. Now, yes he does have a heritage that includes slavery, but he also has a heritage that includes royalty and the Jedi, why must he focus on the negative parts of his heritage when he could use the positive ones to make lasting change in the new Republic for slaves?

I don't know, that's my take on it at least.

#star wars #ask response #jedi apologist #jedi appreciation #jedi order #jedi council #pro jedi #jedi positivity #luke skywalker #slavery #it's not as easy as you think #jedi defense

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la-carcassa-famiglia · 4 years

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yo do tell us about harmonization. i never really cared for the concept tbh i think because i dont really read many fanfics with the sky users (oops) so it doesnt come up often but i am curious to your opinion

Hoo boy I have a lot of thoughts and I’m gonna put it in a read more. Not just for length, but because I do feel like this concept is deeply flawed and I have strong opinions on it

For people who don’t know, harmonization is a fanon interpretation of how the sky flame’s attribute of “harmony” interacts with the other flames. Other flames can “harmonize” with the sky and create a flame bond, to the point where they can all feel each other’s physical/emotional pain or even hear each other’s thoughts. It can vary from author to author but these are the main themes and it’s a surprisingly very widespread thing.

▲ My main issue with it is the extreme codependency that happens between the sky and other flames. It just seems manipulative that because of this bond, you can’t ever leave the sky user, or doing so puts you both in excruciating pain. Even if I think most of Tsuna’s friends are loyal as hell by their own will, people can change and leave you, that’s a part of life. Harmonization takes away that agency and automatically makes the dynamic really unhealthy.

▲ The above point is even worse when they physically can’t be away from each other. Some fics have it so Lambo can’t have other friends?? These characters are all kids and I think this would fuck them up pretty hard developmentally, not to mention a majority of the authors writing these are adults and the theme of possessiveness is so creepy. Like some characters will tell each other “you have to stay with us/me for your safety” and that’s just, not great??

▲ A huge part of KHR is showing how Tsuna develops positive relationships with the people around him, including anyone who isn’t a guardian. I think this concept really undermines his friendships outside of that circle (with Basil, Kyoko, Haru, Enma, etc). It’s like no matter how hard he tries to connect with other people outside of the fucking bond, it doesn’t count as a meaningful relationship.

▲ Another thing that rubs me the wrong way is that the guardians are drawn to Tsuna because of his powerful flames. Again, this also goes against the basis of KHR. Tsuna isn't some powerful badass that people are crawling over themselves to talk with. He's just an average kid who gets bullied. The reason all his guardians are so loyal to him is because he earned their trust by making real connections to them. They've gone through so much together that they're genuinely really close friends because of that, not because of some kind of supernatural property.

▲ I feel like there’s also a huge issue with consent where they can’t choose who they bond with. It’s a fated thing apparently. I’ve heard of a lot of abhorrent fics where Nana was forced to be with Iemitsu because of this and the content is pretty genuinely disgusting.

▲ It's not great how a lot of fics make it so the guardians are the only people that matter to one another. They don't have a life outside of Tsuna at all. At best it makes for bland characterization and at worst no one should rely on one person so heavily.

▲ This is a weaker point because we make fics to deviate from canon but I feel that it’s worth noting: it’s confirmed in canon that flames have no definite correlation to personality. If anything, it’s mainly their role in fights/a group. There are no set rules. It’s like zodiac signs, everyone has one and there are traits associated with them, but they don’t define your entire person. I get why people want to play with the correlation concept because flames are sick as hell but doing that by creating harmonization where it’s so absolutely ingrained in their existence is just... weird.

▲ Harmonization is usually paired with really weird flame lore. Like, they assign personality traits to the flames that are really extreme and just not how the character actually functions. One example is that cloud is supposedly very possessive and territorial, and they make Hibari act like a fucking animal and describe it as pack bond and that's weird as fuck. In the worse fics, it's really just an excuse to have ABO without making it an ABO fic. With minors. It’s so instinctual and animalistic???

▲ There's this whole thing about having one of each flame type to complete the set and feel whole I guess, which is already weird but also contradictory to canon. Tsuna has two mists and Xanxus doesn't have a cloud at all. Did Xanxus flame bond with the robot being powered by his adoptive father? What's going on there.

▲ There are cases where characters will use Rain flames to calm down a sad or angry person. In theory sounds fine, but usually in these fics the other person didn’t consent to it. It’s emotionally manipulative and you’re basically just sedating them. There is no communication going on and it’s treated like it’s a good thing and that the rain user is being helpful. In fact, there’s rarely any good communication in these fics at all. People just use their flames to do everything because they’re such a overwhelmingly big focus.

▲ Harmonization fics often seem like an excuse to put Tsuna in pain by losing everyone he cares about, and it ends up being more deeply uncomfortable than angsty or fun to read.

▲ WHAT THE FUCK IS A FLAME WOMB?? FLAME CHILDREN??? FLUSSY????????? WHAT THE FUCK ILL TAKE YOUR LIFE

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #THIS GOT SO LONG WHOOPS #apologies if I got redundant #a lot of these points relate to each other #i just... really don't like it #don't even fucking come at me with the 'youre overracting with fiction'#hibari just really takes the brunt of it i think #hes not an animal hes not gonna start talking about caves and hunting and shit #yes ive read a fic where they made him do that #i hid an answer in the illusion #Anonymous

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liquidtime · 4 years

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Fuck RT and that entire business and Ryan and everyone who isn’t Fiona tbh.

Controversy after controversy keeps coming out of that company. But, you know, I’ve watched so many hours of content from these guys and they genuinely seemed like they were always working towards self improvement, and the improvement of RT. Even though they weren’t perfect, they were trying, and in a community that can be as toxic as the gaming community, I thought their presence was a net positive.

But damn, I’m not so sure anymore.

I’ve never really been involved in the RT community side of things other than reblogging gifs on Tumblr or talking about LPs sometimes. I never had an account on their website, or followed their twitter pages. I’ve been straying from their content for the past handful of years, but I would still catch TTT or rewatch some old videos. But, I was pretty much was ignorant to the inner goings on at the company.

I had no clue Mica got bullied out until they were talking about it, and all the other issues with racism in the community, with Fiona on OT. I just felt so sick about the entire thing, but I wanted to stick around and support them because, again, they all seemed so dedicated to turn things around. Plus, Fiona’s there, and she was talking so passionately about standing her ground and staying no matter what shit was flung her way.

Basically, Fiona lended credibility to their pledge to improve. Enough that I was comfortable continuing to watch. That’s a lot of fucking pressure on one person, who is also suffering from the majority of their online harassment, and to a harsher level. It’s unfair.

I mean, she’s not the only one. Like I said, I’ve watched a lot of content and I believed that they were all good guys, they just needed to listen and learn better from women and poc in their company (and community).

But without Fiona, I wouldn’t have been so confident that improvement would be happening. Again, not really fair to make her carry that burden, but it is what it is for now.

Then, I found out about the abuse allegations against Trevor. (I’m like a year late because I never pay attention to what is happening in the community.) It made me side-eye everything again and take a major step back from their current content. I didn’t really know where I stood anymore.

Ryan sleeping with fans and sending nudes is the last straw for me. It’s hitting close to home, probably because Ryan was my favorite of the AH members. I would never have expected this type of behavior for him, and I guess it just made me see everything else as a facade as well.

I’m not stupid. I know that we don’t really know these people. They all have online personas that they lean in to, and of course they only share the aspects of their lives that they want online. That’s true for any internet celebrity. But, as I have repeated already in this post, you still feel like you get a sense of their morals as humans.

I was truly so caught off guard. I feel like I can’t support any aspect of the company because I’ll just be waiting for the next racist/abuser/misogynist/whatever person to be revealed. Like, Ryan’s not working there anymore. Good. I want to think of Michael and Lindsay, or Gavin or whoever, and be like: they would never do that. But how do I know? I would have never thought that Ryan would have either.

So, we have Mica and the issues Fiona has faced, Ryan and Adam’s relationships with fans, Trevor’s abuse allegations, Joel’s stupid BLM tweets and abhorrent behavior. They had to shut down their stream chat to non first members because of racist language (at least from what I can gather from twitter). Their animation department was accused of overworking employees.

Even thought most of the individual issues have been addressed (most, not all), the company itself seems broken. Like a leaky pipe where you keep cleaning the water, but don’t fix the pipe so new messes keep happening.

I’ve heard that rumors about Ryan sleeping with fans at cons and such would go around fan ‘inner circles’ or some bullshit, so it was kind of already out there, it’s just that the proof got leaked to the greater public. I think my non-participation in the community is honestly the only thing that kept me as a fan for so long. Ignorance is bliss I guess.

So, this is my departure from a piece of media that played a huge role in my life. Hell, I’m glad that AH Live West Coast Tour got cancelled because now I don’t have memories from that, that would turn sour. I certainly won’t be purchasing tickets once they reorganize another tour after COVID.

It’s so weird. I feel like Harry Potter and Achievement Hunter have gotten ripped from my heart. It sounds so dramatic, but these things impacted such a huge portion of my life, it feels odd to not be actively consuming media from them.

I hope Fiona leaves. I hope she leaves and does something better and becomes more successful. She deserves more that what the company can give her in its current state.

#idk I just needed to get my extreme feelings of disappointment and disgust out #personal #text #RT #I didn't really proofread this sooooo go off

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myupostsheadcanons · 7 years

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My loooooong rant about The Aen Elle: The Witcher

Book Spoilers, not so much Game Spoilers.

First off, my “elephant in the room” ... Eredin.

In the books he is nowhere near final-boss material like he was in the games. He’s the “That One Boss” rather than “The Big Bad”. Eredin has less of his shit together in the books tbh. He’s like Kylo Ren Evil rather than Voldemort Evil. They both did extremely bad things and you can’t deny either of them being villainous characters, just different types of evil characters.

Book Eriden has no filter, literally, he says what’s on his mind and doesn’t hesitate to go after what he wants. He’s arrogant and too the point, and doesn’t know what discretion is.

Some of his semi.... alright.... ? qualities:

1. He accidentally insulted Ciri upon first meeting her and apologized right away, he even gave her a flower. 2. He was the only one to be upfront with Ciri that she was a prisoner and will never be released. Even though he did lie to her about her friends being dead and gone. (Unless he wasn’t in his POV and just didn’t understand that TIME means nothing to her).

3. He wasn’t a bad sport about loosing a horse race with her. While he was competitive while it happened, at the end praised her skill and her horse for winning. Note: Kelpie let him pet her on the muzzle. Kelpie, the super horse with a foul temper that Ciri had made sure to note that would bite.... Either this was to show that he is decent with animals or to prove some kind of point of rebuking the “animals hate them” trope that villain characters often get stuck with.

Side Note: Considering he is the commander of mounted combat shock troops for the past several hundred years, it would be logical enough to say that he has a healthy amount of knowledge on horses and their mannerisms and knew if it was safe to pet Kelpie or not.

4. He was honestly trying to help further their people’s common goal when he offered Ciri the aphrodisiac to give Auberon, enough so that he gave it to him himself anyways. And was surprised to learn that it killed Auberon.

I highly doubt that Eredin’s skilled enough to make the potion properly 100% of the time, or making it more potent/concentrated turned it into a poison OR, somebody else made it...... (Avallach???? hmmmm???) and gave it to him with instructions on what it does.

((Avallach making it would mean that him getting the hell out of dodge was intentional, that he wanted to be far-far away when Eredin put the puzzle pieces together.))

Auberon, Avallach, and Eredin had a Triumvirate going on. The Unicorns specifically called out all three of them as being dangerous and behind most of what the Aen Elle had been doing. Together they followed the Face/King (Auberon), Brain/Sage (Avallach), and Hand/General (Eredin) .

Just look at the nicknames the Unicorns gave the three of them: The King of the Alders, The Fox, and The Sparrowhawk. They mean something.

While Alder can be an alternative name for Elder, as in the elder blood, the Aen Elle themselves, an actual Alder is a kind of birch tree common in wet areas and used often in dying leather, charcoal/gunpowder, and for making structures that need to be held in wet areas without rotting. The Alder is also a sacred tree, the tree of Bran the Blessid, and was the inspiration for the Weirwood Trees in GRRM’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the insides of the Alder tree will turn red/brown/dark when it is cut (weirwoods are blood red on the inside). Forests of Alder are considered “cursed” and to be avoided at all costs, those that go in unprepared or properly blessed will not be seen again (killed by monsters or taken by Fae, the Sidhe, to their realm (hmm, Aen Sidhe.... any one?). Though irl, it is because Alder Forests are in wetland and boggy areas, people just get stuck in the mud and drown.

(Note: another literary example, The Erl King from The Dresden Files. King of the Alders also refers to the character he is based off of: Erlkonig (Elf/Alder King). And in the Dresden series, The Erl King is a powerful wild-fae, the Goblin King (think: The Labyrinth) and King of the Wild Hunt (The Elk-Horned King). It is a also a common fan theory that he is /the/ Oberon, though he is called Lord Herne by name, another horned-crowned hunter of myth as well. As a lord of the wild-fae, he is neutral to winter and summer. ((Yes, one character can have many identities. This is a word where Odin the All Father is also Santa Clause)).

Remember, Auberon wasn’t some aloof sassy king. He’s jaded and apathetic from being around for over 650 years. But he’s ordered the deaths and enslavement of millions of humans, a genocide, and Avallach and Eredin were right there carrying out these orders. He was polite to Ciri because they needed her, and that eventually went out the window when given an opening to do so.

The Aen Elle’s entire plan was based on re-opening the gates so they can continue this practice. They tricked the Unicorns into doing this once before, but they grew wise and are now at war with the Aen Elle. Lara was the culmination of the Aen Elle’s breeding efforts to create somebody powerful enough to accomplish this. There is a strong possibility she completely disagreed with her people’s ideals, be it that she knew she was being used and/or because she fell in love with a human and changed her ways. But she completely booked it and left them all to rot, while giving them two big middle fingers (which were later mailed back to Avallach in an envelope...... bad joke).

IMO, Avallach, The Fox, was the more dangerous of the trio (not necessarily the most evil of them). With Eredin he didn’t hide who he was, but Avallach.... he had an agenda a mile long and lied through his non-pointed teeth. He would present a kind and helpful facade, and when ever something underneath would slip through the cracks, it wasn’t very pleasant. Foxes are depicted as tricksters, cunning and wily, an animal most frequently associated with being deceitful, or having ulterior motives. When Auberon threaten to give Ciri over to Avallach and his laboratory, my mind went straight to Vilgafortz and his plans for Ciri... i don’t think this was unintentional.

There is several instances in the novels (The Lady of the Lake especially) where events parallel one another (like Auberon’s abhorrence to Ciri ended up mirroring itself with Emhyr rejecting his plans for Ciri in the end. The theme with Ciri escaping people associated with Birds of Prey (Cahir (his helmet), Tawny Owl, Eriden the Sparrowhawk.... Merlin better watch himself)). Vilgafortz was the obvious villain of the saga, the biggest threat at the time, but did not start out that way, he was first presented as a diplomat, somebody who should be respected and came off as being the reasonable authority figure compared to the decadence of the Sorcerers. Then was revealed to be a sick, twisted SOB doing science experiments on abducted women in order to perfect a technique he was to do on Ciri. Everything he did was in order to accomplish this end goal, to harness Ciri’s powers for himself, even his kind and diplomatic facade at the start and him spending decades gathering political influence in both the North and Nilfgaard under it. The disfigurement of his face was a physical representation of his madness, that the mask was removed and now showed on the outside the ugliness on the inside.

Emhyr’s plan for Ciri started out as Vilgafortz’s plan. Vilgafortz was the one that knew of the prophecy and was the person to find out whom Duny was really. He brought the prophecy to Emyhr and put the idea that the heir of Nilfgaard will be the chosen one. When this was proposed, Ciri was a toddler at the time (keep in mind that Pevetta was only around 20/21 when she died, and wasn’t 15 yet when she met Emhyr/Duny. In perspective: Ciri was 16 by the end of Lady of the Lake).

Avallach was part of the original breeding plan with Lara, a multi-generational slow-burn magical science experiment. It was more than likely that it was arranged that the two of them become a couple. Avallach is a powerful Sorcerer, member of the Aen Saeherne, sages with specialized training and secretive knowledge about the “Lara Gene”. When the actual Lara, also an Aen Saevherne, broke up with him and left their people he was very upset about it, something he’s still grudgingly bitter about centuries years later. This is one of the cracks in his facade, when people talk about Lara, and when he did snap at Ciri it was because she compared herself to Lara and in anger suggested that Avallach should be the one to knock her up. He pretty much told her that she disgusted him (maybe even more than Auberon was of her), that her human blood was an insult to their people, that a human took their gift away from them and Lara away from him.

Avallac’h isn’t even his actual name, it’s Creavan Espane aep Caomhan Macha. The root of the nickname also gives us the name to Avalon (the Isle of Apple Trees)... Avalon is were the faeries live, where Morgan La Fae learned her powers, /The/ Lady of the Lake lives there in some stories (she was the one to give Arthur Excalibur, the “sword in the stone” is Uthar Pendragon’s sword), and where King Arthur was taken after he was mortally wounded by Mordred. Geralt and Yennifer were basically taken to Avalon by Ciri and the Unicorn. Then sometime between that and showing up before Galahad, she got into a bloody fight (and won/escaped from that).... (If you believe that Avallach betrayed his people intentionally and ran off.... Ciri taking Yen and Geralt to Avallach for help would be quite the literal interpretation)

Eredin being the Sparrowhawk is one of the more straightforward meanings, its practically hanging a lampshade on what his reason is in the over all story. Like the character himself: to the point and doesn’t hide his motives or pretends to be something he is not. Sparrowhawks get their name because small birds are their most frequent prey. Cirillia’s name came from the Aen Elle word Zireael, a word that means Swallow, a type of small bird. Sparrow and Swallow are very similar words. Book Eriden calls her Zireael instead of her name to put further emphasis that he sees her as prey.

Wiki Note: Falconers have utilized the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage.

Falconry is a practice of keeping birds of prey captive in order to hunt small game for sport or food. They are kept on a leash, hooded, and in cages/aviaries.

Who had Eredin’s leash and used him to hunt prey? Auberon, The Alder King. There was very little indication that there was a conflict of interests between the two, Auberon even trusted him enough to take the vial from him on his word alone. And, again, Eredin seamed not to have expected it to kill Auberon.

Eredin’s name doesn’t seam to have as much significance as Auberon (Oberon) and Avallac’h (Avalon). Eredin Breacc Glas (fan nickname: break glass) he’s literally the first thing that comes up, excluding “witcher” from the searches, you get results from League of Legends, Star Wars, and Final Fantasy :/

A shot in the dark is the Eridanos (river of Hades). AND I only thought of that one because of.... Homestuck’s Eridan Ampora being named after it. It means “Amber” in Greek. And when i think of “Amber” I first think of Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles. Another series based off of Arthur and Shakespeare Mythos (King Oberon, Avalon, Traveling through Time/Space (Shadow), Blood of the Unicorns, Merlin). Amber was written in the 70′s and 80′s, Zelazny died right around the same time the Witcher short-stories were being published.

Note: Ciri escaped while fighting him on a river, because it was the only path to get out of the loop... if that means anything. :/ (water is a common “ground” for magic, it disperses the energy needed in the spell. it is why Vampires can’t travel across moving water).

The mere presence of Ciri among them, her curse of destiny, ended up breaking open the below-surface cracks in their Triumvirate. Auberon’s disgust, Avallach’s jealousy, Eriden being the unhelpful helper... Ciri’s insistent want to go home... the Unicorns.... Their plans just crumbled in their hands and resulted in the death of Auberon, Avallach possibly deserting them, and Ciri’s escape from Eredin.

Myu Recommends, Extra Reading Material:

Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files.... A Wizard for Hire, solving supernatural cases, and later gets tied up in wars with the Vampires, the Fairy Courts, Arch-Demons, and Ancient Horror Terrors.

Roger Zelanzy’s Amber and Chaos Chronicles. (As Collected in The Great Book of Amber). Corwin of Amber wakes up with amnesia, discovers that his father Oberon, King of Amber, is missing or dead and he is now on the top of his siblings’ hit-lists. Those born of the unicorn and traversed the pattern can freely walk through time and space, The Shadow. (Chaos Courts have an older and more complex version of gaining the same ability, The Labyrinth/Logrus, The Serpent .... most people die before completing it)

King Arthur: Le Morte de Arthur, The Once and Future King, and (maybe) The Mists of Avalon. The Faery Realm, Galahad ascending into Heaven, Merlin being Trapped in a cavern for centuries, The Isle of Avalon.... The basis of many of the modern “alternate dimension” in fantasy stories, including The Witcher, Dresden, and Amber.

#the witcher #aen elle #avallac'h #Auberon #Eredin #the witcher books #myu reads

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